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From: "David A. Ulevitch" <davidu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: June 30, 2005 7:42:19 AM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] SiliconValley.com - Good Morning Silicon Valley
Dave,
Surely this must be a joke. Any content publisher can block google
from crawling and/or caching their site:
In robots.txt:
User-Agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /
If you simply don't want pages cached (but do what them crawled) then
this is all that's needed on the page:
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">
If content publishers are concerned about this then the solution for
them is not only trivial but also well published and directly listed
on Google's FAQ.
Thanks,
david ulevitch
On Jun 30, 2005, at 2:17 AM, David Farber wrote:
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Villians! How dare you induce people to read our content: It may be
that Google, more than even Grokster, has the most to lose from the
U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of MGM vs. Grokster (see
"NBC bolsters fall lineup with 'Peer-to-Peer: Criminal Intent' ").
At least that's the opinion of New York University's Siva
Vaidhyanathan, who in an editorial over at Salon wonders how long
it will be before the publishing industry figures out it can use
the high court's inducement standard as a cudgel with which to
bludgeon the search leader.
"Consider this," Vaidhyanathan writes. "Google, like Grokster, is
primarily a search engine. Its business model relies on
advertisements. And the more we use Google, the more money it
makes. Like Grokster, Google resolves communication queries. It
generates a link from an information provider to an information
seeker. And almost all of what it delivers is copyrighted. The fact
that no major copyright industry player has brought Google to court
so far is merely a function of the fact that most copyright holders
want Google to index and offer links to their materials. There is
no explicit contract. You have to opt out of the Google world. But
there is one major difference between Grokster and Google. Grokster
does no copying itself. It merely induces and enables. If anyone
infringes, it's Google: The company caches millions of Web pages
without permission (again, giving copyright holders the option of
protesting). And soon it will offer millions of copyrighted books
in electronic form without payment or permission. How would Google
fare in a post-Grokster world? The publishing industry no doubt
wonders. And it just might sue to find out."
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